[ILUG] [TOTD] emacs-like tabkey auto indentation in vim

[P at draigBrady.com]

Stephen Shirley wrote:
> (Seeing as someone was looking for this earlier on irc (and hasn't 
> complained that it didn't work ,-))
> 
> In emacs, if you hit tab on a line of code, it will indent the line to 
> the appropriate level, i.e. add or remove tabs/spaces as needed to make 
> the indentation consistent with the previous line. If you want to do the 
> same thing with vim, add the following to your ~/.vimrc :
> 
>     imap <tab> <esc>==i

Nice tip!
The usual way this is done though is:

imap <tab> <C-O>==

Pádraig.